insentient
Example Sentences
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“I began gradually to stir into another style of life, less theoretical and less optimistic, less vulnerable. I was ready for an insentient middle age,” he wrote in “The Savage God.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
There, with the ability to talk to the unresponsive living, his nerves "insentient now as string," he longs even for the pain of Hell.
From Time Magazine Archive
It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Theodore's stertorous breathing assured me that he was still insentient.
From Castles in the Air by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Into the menace of a power, irresistible, inflexible, but yet insentient, there seems to enter a purposeful, vengeful evil.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
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